Ringer.



W. S. & J. M. TAYLOR.

RINGER.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 8, 1911.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. TAYLOR, OI ROLL, AND JESSE M. TAYLOR, 0F CENTERVILLE,INDIANA.

RINGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM S. TAYLOR and Jnssn M. TAYLOR, citizens ofthe United States, residing, respectively, at Roll and Centerville, inthe counties of Blackford and Turner, respectively, State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Ringer, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to animal husbandry, and more especially toringers which are utilized for putting a ring into the nose of a hog orthe like; and the object of the same is to improve the construction of atool of thischaracter so as to adapt it to rings of various sizes withinlimits, to provide means for holding the ring very firmly in place, andfinally to provide means whereby the ring is automatically and suddenlycontracted in size at the moment it is inserted in the web of the nose.These objects are accomplished by the construction described and claimedbelow and shown in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthis instrument before the ring is put into it. Fig. 2 is a similar viewwith the ring in place, this View illustrating how the set lever ismanipulated to raise the dog. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through theinstrument with its parts in the same position as in Fig. 2, the thumblever being here depressed to turn the movable jaw so as to compress thering a little and hold it more tightly in place.

Figs. 4, 5 and. 6 are perspective details of the movable jaw, thumblever, and trigger respectively.

In the drawings the numerals and l designate respectively the movableand fixed handles which are pivoted together at 3 and normally spreadapart by a spring 41. interposed between their rear ends. What I callthe fixed handle 1 carries at its lower end the fixed jaw 5 whose innerface is dished and grooved as at 6 for the reception of one side of thering R, and what I call the movable handle 2 haspivoted to it themovable jaw 7 best seen in Fig. 4 and whose working face is also dishedand grooved as at 8 to engage the other side of the ring R as best seenin Fig. 3, but this jaw 7 is pivoted as at 9 to the lower end of thehandle 2 and its upper or inner end has a cam face 10 engaged by thethumb lever 11 which in turn is pivoted as at 12 to the other handle.Normally this lever lies in the posit-ion shown in Fig. l,'when the ringR is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1911.

Serial No. 619,797.

first inserted it stands as shown in Fig. 2, and by depressing its outerend the movable jaw 7 is turned on its pivot 9 so that the ring R isquite tightly held in the instrument.

The lower ends of the handle members are held distended by a set dog 15pivoted at 16 within the movable member, and the nose 17 of this dog issharpened to an edge and is adapted to engage a notch 18 in a latch 19which is pivoted at 20 in the other handle member, its lower end havingan ear 21 adapted to be engaged by a cross bar 22 at the rear end of aspreader 23 which is pivoted as at 24 to the fixed handle and whichPatented July 11, 1911.

has two prongs 25 adapted to straddle the ring as best seen in Fig. 2.

The numeral 26 designates a set lever whose hand portion 27 lies overthe movable handle 2 and whose body is preferably mounted on the samepivot 16 as the dog, its lower end carrying a cross bar 28 which extendsbeneath the nose 17 of the dog, as best seen in Fig. 3.

In the use of this instrument, itis taken in the left hand as shown inFig. 1, and the set lever turned to the position shown in Fig. 2. Thiscauses its cross bar 28 to raise the nose of the dog until it engagesthe notch 18 in the latch 19. Meanwhile the other hand holds the triggerraised so that the ear 21 of the latch passes over the cross bar 22, andwhen the trigger is released and the prongs 25 drop to the positionshown in Figs. 2 and 3 its cross bar 22 engages behind the ear 21, afterwhich the set lever can be restored to the position shown in Fig. 1 asit is then of no further use.' The ring R is then inserted in thegrooves 6 and 8 of the two jaws, and the thumb lever 11 brought downfrom the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 3 or perhapsbeyond, this action bearing the upper end of the movable jaw 7 outwardand passing its jaw face inward so as to compress the ring R slightlyand hold it very rigidly in place. The instrument is then broughtagainst the edge of the web in the nose of the animal to be ringed, andwhen such web touches the prongs 25 of the trigger 23 the latter isturned on its pivot 24 and its cross bar 22 releases the ear 21 of thelatch. As the expansive force of the springt is giving the lower ends ofthe mits the tip of the nose 17 of the dog to slide out of the notch 18and down the in clined inner edge of this arm of the fixed handle, andthe sudden expansion of the spring 4 causes the two jaw faces to beapproximated sufliciently to compress the ring and project itsextremities through the web of the nose. The nose 17 being nowdisengaged from the latch, before the instrument can be again used toinsert another ring the operation of setting the dog must be repeated inthe manner above described.

Thus it will be seen that we have produced a nose ringer wherein thecompression of the ring through the web of the animals nose is effectedautomatically by the sudden expansion of the spring, and the latter ispermitted by the tripping of the latch by the contact of the triggerwith the nose itself.

V e do not wish to be limited to the precise construction, nor todetails except as hereinafter claimed; and the materials and proportionsand finish of parts are obviously matters of no moment in this patent.

What is claimed is:

1. In a ringer, the combination with two main levers, ring-holding jawsat their extremities, and a spring for throwing said jaws normallytoward each other, of a pivoted trigger lying across the ring when inplace and having a cross bar, a latch having an ear adapted to beengaged by said cross bar and a notch in its body, a dog having a nosewith a sharp point adapted to engage the said notch, and means forsetting said dog.

2. In a. ringer, the combination with two main levers, ring-holding jawsat their extremities, and a spring for throwing said jaws normallytoward each other; of a pivoted trigger lying across the ring when inplace and having a cross bar, a latch adapted to be engaged by saidcross bar and having a notch in its body, a dog adapted to engage thesaid notch, the latch and dog being pivoted to different membersrespectively, and a setting lever pivoted to the member which carriesthe dog and having a cross bar standing under and adapted to raise thesame into engagement with the notch of the latch.

3. In a ringer, the conibination with one member having a fixed jaw, amovable member pivoted to the first member, a spring between their handportions for throwing them normally apart, and a dog normally resistingthe tension of this spring; of a movable aw pivoted to said movablemember, means 011 this member for setting the dog, a trigger andconnections for tripping the dog, a movable jaw pivoted to said movablemember and having a cam face, and a thumb lever pivoted to the fixedmember and adapted to engage said cam face for the purpose set forth.

4. In a ringer, the combination with one member having a fixed jaw, amovable member pivoted to the first member, a spring for throwing themnormally apart, and a dog normally resisting the tension of this spring;of a movable jaw pivoted to said movable member, means for pressing itsjaw face toward that of the fixed jaw, a setting lever for setting thedog, and a trigger pivoted to the fixed member and adapted to trip saiddog by contact of the trigger-arms with the animal.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIAM S. TAYLOR. JESSE M. TAYLOR.

Witnesses to the signature of Villiam S. Taylor:

ALAN Boson, J r., Jnssm LARSEN. lVitnesses to the signature of Jesse M.Taylor:

EvERT ALEXANDER,

O. W. LIKELY.

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